Deschutes Bike Jersey Photo by Mike Putnam 0
Mike Putnam is a landscape photographer based in Bend, Oregon. His fine art landscape prints are found in countless private and corporate collections across the United States.
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Home Again 0
(Editors note: Planning a long adventure or trip can be exciting. “What places will I see?” “What people will I meet?” A cross country bike ride, or a flight across the globe can change you. When heading out on a trek I normally think only of what experiences are yet to come. Fietspad has talked much about such adventures. But what is it like when you finally return home? How are things different? To return to your childhood house after seeing and experiencing foreign places… How do you see things differently, and how have you grown? Award winning photographer, passionately creative spirit, and Sonadei supporter Nirrimi has written a touching piece about such feelings. Below is one of her writings where she shares her emotions. Please read her blog for more.)
my hometown, the town of the heavy sun. it had been a long time since i saw my family.
there is my mother, the eccentric artist. often wearing midriff shirts and falling in love with strangers on public transport. her stories of her youth, as free and inspired as any, give me purpose and a sense of self.
A Delayed Reaction… 0
(Editors note: Our in-house adventurer and bicycle advocate has launched a new en devour. Ross will be trekking around the United States of America. Below is his first posting as he sets out on the road. Please read Ross’s blog posts here.)
I usually react to bigger life events a few days, weeks, or perhaps years after the fact. After college, I went to live in London. The fact that I was moving to London didn’t become real until I sat in the airport, not a moment before. When I left everything behind to join the Peace Corps, it didn’t hit me until I meet my new Cape Verdean family for the first time. That night I came to the realization that I was living in Cape Verde for the next two years. And so, as I pack, box t-shirts I shan’t see again, and say goodbye to friends, animals, and city views that I might not see for a long time again, it still doesn’t register that I’m not just going on a noodle bike ride.
Growing Wild: A Forest Service Childhood 0
(Editors note: This article was originally posted on the national Forest Foundations blog website by Darcy Poletti Harp. This is a charming piece about the forests’ effect on her young childhood. Please read Darcy’s other posts here.)
It’s a hard life growing up in the Forest Service. There are streams to fish, cabins to visit and trails to hike. You end up with way too many Smokey Bear shoelaces and pencils and have to go to potlucks at campgrounds. Well, on second thought, I guess it doesn’t sound all that bad. Actually, for me, growing up as the daughter of a District Ranger was really nothing short of wonderful.
The Neighborhood Bike Gang 0
Like most young women, my biking career began on a bright pink and purple tricycle in the cul-de-sac above my house.
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Winter Riding 0
Tights? Check. Two pairs of socks? Check. Ridiculous amounts of clothing on? Check. And so, your ready to head out on the snowy streets in below freezing temperatures for what was once a peaceful, warm bicycle ride. Now, your winter riding.
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A Hokkaido Bike Ride: Part 3 1
It was with a final dash of 100 miles that I rolled, with the setting sun casting glows upon the Universal Studios in the distance, into my final port of call: Osaka. I had been biking for two months, covering 3,000 miles, crisscrossing three out of the four main Japanese islands.
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A Hokkaido Bike Ride: Part 2 0
On my map, it looked like a quaint little road, meandering for a while alongside a rambling brook. What it actually turned out to be was a four lane super highway of death and destruction. Seemingly, it was the only way out of Niigata where I had just taken a ferry to from Hokkaido 20 hours earlier.
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PEDAL for Our Cleaner Earth 4
As she bikes over the vast Green Mountains of Vermont, Emily Colin, co-founder of PEDAL (People for Environment, Diversity, Action and Learning), tries to imagine what it will be like doing the same climb, except 10,000 feet higher in the South American Andes. In a little over four months, Emily, along with her partner Rayna Weiss and a few other friends will embark on a 6 month tour of South America by bicycle. Out of breathe and slightly dizzy, Emily had a moment to sit with us and talk about this exciting new project that hopes to create a bridge between those who are working and living in sustainable and holistic ways with the land to the youth and students in the United States.
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Pericos Mountain Bike - Costa Rica 2
The breeze gently sways the long fronds of banana trees while the early morning wake up hoots and hollers of monkeys fill the wet humid air. It’s another day in Costa Rica, and as usually the sun will be shining with a likely chance of afternoon showers. The flora and fauna of Costa Rica are varied, colorful, and easily scared when a crew of mountain bikers come tearing through a grove, leaving a few feathers in their wake. We had a chance to talk to one of these rain forest Rambos, Fabian Duran, who started Pericos MTB in Costa Rica about his organization and biking in Costa Rica.
